Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft is expected to return to service in the second quarter of this year but less than half of the undelivered backlog will have been cleared by the year-end aviation industry experts are predicting.

If the robin is the ‘Christmas bird’, then the snow bunting is the ‘white-Christmas’ one; its arrival here each winter is as irregular and unpredictable as snow during the festive season.

Craftspeople began to discover the attractions of West Cork in the 1960s and began to establish roots there, writes Alison Ospina

Duncan Osborne is the new chief executive of Calor Ireland, which supplies and distributes Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) across Ireland.

THE late newspaper editor Áengus Fanning always used to say: “Be prepared to be the most unpopular person in the room.”

Low-income earners, who are the losers when carbon taxes are increased, will need to be compensated in the budget to win support for climate action, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Thomas Cook’s grounded planes are likely to disappoint creditors waiting to get some of their money back after liquidators sorting through the company’s wreckage sell them off.

To make wind energy generation possible in towns and cities, Galway startupYeloblade has developed a new turbine that’s both compact and silent, and can sit on a flat roof.

The New York dating app, which is now available here, wants people to connect deeply and so it encourages them to meet in person and not stay online, says

Norwegian Air’s decision to pull all its direct transatlantic flights from Ireland into North America next month amid mounting costs has put up to 134 crew and administrative jobs at risk.

Domino's Pizza has reiterated plans to grow further in Ireland after seeing Irish-based sales grow by 8.5% in the first half of the year.

An Irish company is paving the way for a big innovation in the way we get to work.

John Bull has always divided opinion. To our neighbours, he came to symbolise the best of British: A jovial, chubby, but solid and honest character of rural stock. For others (ie pretty much everyone else), this representation came to be viewed in very different terms. Just how different was apparent in a New York Times piece from 1861.

HALF of Europe has been slammed by a massive heat wave in recent weeks, with many regions experiencing temperatures never before seen in June. But it may just be the beginning, says Marco Evers.

Cork City manager John Cotter sees the positives and negatives of a Europa League draw that leaves the club in the dark as to whether they will play Luxembourg’s Progres Niederkorn or European debutants Cardiff Metropolitan University FC until they complete their preliminary round second leg on July 4.

Vegan start-up Fiid aims to make the most of a flexitarian approach to food intake amid climate concerns, writes Trish Dromey.

The friendly fellowship of voices united in pouring out their songs in perfect harmony in a weekend of idyllic sunshine made Cork the most agreeable place to be over the weekend for the city’s International Choral Festival.

Equinor is the latest large oil company to bow to a major investor group that is pushing corporations to take more robust action on climate change.

When a giant stained glass window was unveiled last week opposite Belfast City Hall, the installation marked the start of a new campaign to showcase the North as the ‘Game of Thrones Territory’ to the millions of fans of the television series around the world.

With over 20 years at the top of the Irish golf and leisure scene, Maurice O’Meara is a man who really knows golf.

Known in Irish as ‘an smolach ceoil’.

A top European academic is warning that Ireland is one of two European countries with a third level education system classified as “in danger” due to the shortfall in funding while the number of students has increased.

Last year, 192 women turned 100 while a much smaller number of men at 55 reached the momentous mark.

Archaeologist Enda Flaherty has been documenting abandoned schoolhouses, thus providing a snapshot of those forgotten places where many of our predecessors were taught, says Dan MacCarthy.

When we arrived home in west Cork on this day last week, it was 3am Monday morning.

The Great War did not end on November 11, 1918. The fighting stopped but a one-sided killing by other means continued into 1919, and was actually intensified.

The green linnet, alias the greenfinch, deserves such lavish praise; the male, in his green array, has bright-yellow wing-bars and tail-fringes.

Swapping homes can be an affordable way of holidaying in your dream location, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

According to the Irish Embassy in Riyadh, “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a welcoming and hospitable country with many unique traditions.”

Holidays are for reading all those books you’ve been discussing with your friends for weeks, but haven’t actually read.

Ireland is unlikely to reach a housing supply balance, of 30,000-40,000 new builds per year, by 2021, according to one of the country’s largest construction firms.

Carol O’Callaghan visits a new exhibition and talks to its curator about the making, impact and collecting of craft across a range of practices — ceramics, furniture, glassware, textiles, stone, and jewellery-making.

Leeds owner Andrea Radrizzani has defended the club's controversial tour of Myanmar next month.

You’ll always have Copenhagen, but Aarhus offers all the hygge (and Nordic cuisine) along with one of the most exciting design scenes on the continent, writes John Wogan.

Irish-owned bottled water producer Celtic Pure is targeting significant expansion in Asia in the short-term, with a view to generating €1m in annual revenues from China by 2020.

In West Cork, it was as warm as the Canary Islands if one was in a sheltered corner or a stoutly built conservatory.

Arsene Wenger has called on his Arsenal side to put on the sort of displays that will have stay-away fans returning to the Emirates Stadium.

In almost any other sport or competition, it would be anathema to a type of observer, especially Real Championship Man: The wretched dead rubber.

IF Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is still convinced that the people of rural Ireland want, as he puts it, “to turn every town into a city and every village into town, and railways to everywhere,” he should stop being so condescending and get out more.

Ed Power looks at the state of popular music which is increasingly dominated by performers working their back catalogues to death.

ON THESE bright winter mornings, when the tide is out, the sand of Courtmacsherry Bay is carved by cobalt rivers, flowing toward the surf line in the distance. 

DEAR Women: Sorry to be the bearer of bad news at Christmas time, writes Pat Fitzpatrick.

IN Timoleague, west Cork, where the famous 13th century abbey overlooks the sea, there may be seen, these evenings, one of the most extraordinary displays of coordination and swarm behaviour in nature, a murmuration of starlings, says Damien Enright.

Irish expats and emigrants are set to step up their campaign to have voting rights extended to citizens living abroad.